School of Spatial Planning & Natural Resource Management: Recent submissions
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Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequences of Saccostrea Mordax and Saccostrea Cucullata: Genome Organization and Phylogeny Analysis
(Informa Health Care, 2015-07-30)Classified in the phylum mollusks, oysters are bivalves which are found in estuaries and coastalzones. Because of their plastic shell, mitochondrial DNA analysis of this species becomes an interesting field, necessary to ... -
Spatio-Temporal Implications of Land Use Change in Kisii Town, Kenya
(American Journal of Geographic Information System, 2018)Policy design for spatial planning interventions should be informed by a clear understanding of the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban land use change. As such, effective monitoring of urban land use change is imperative ... -
Compliance with Physical Planning Standards by Residential Developments in Kisii Town, Kenya
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2018)The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which residential developments in Kisii Town complied with Building Coverage Ratio (BCR) and Floor Area Ratio (FAR) physical planning standards. To attain this, ... -
Determinants of Gender Willingness to Participate in Co-Management of Ecotorism Resources: The Case of Kisumu County
(2018)Gender is one of the integral aspects that emerge in environmental resource management for ecotourism planning amongst various players. There are hardly any gender studies that have been carried out in Kisumu to consider ... -
Gender Mainstreaming in the Rural Transport Sector in Kenya
(Africa community access partnership, 2016)The Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCAP) has contracted Tacitus Ltd to undertake research into gender mainstreaming in the rural transport sector institutions in Kenya. The research is ... -
The Nexus between environmental knowledge and ecotourism attitude among the local youths in Co-educational Secondary Schools in Bondo Sub-County, Siaya County, Kenya
(international journal of business and social research, 2013)Kenya’s pursuit to be among the top tourism destinations globally require strategic focus as envisaged in Kenya’s Vision 2030 and the Constitution of Kenya 2010. Ecotourism supports environmental conservation as well as ... -
Going small when the city grows big: New options for water supply and sanitation in rapidly expanding urban areas
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-01-22)Actual development of water and wastewater systems in towns is an outcome of several interrelated factors such as physical, economic, and social environments. Demography is also an important factor to consider in the ... -
A longitudinal study of long-term change in contamination hazards and shallow well quality in two neighbourhoods of Kisumu, Kenya
(Environmental Research and Public Health, 2015-04-17)Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing rapid urbanisation and many urban residents use groundwater where piped supplies are intermittent or unavailable. This study aimed to investigate long-term changes in groundwater contamination ... -
A participatory methodology for future scenario analysis of sub-national water and sanitation access: case study of Kisumu, Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)This study pilots a participatory methodology for sub-national spatial planning of urban and peri-urban water and sanitation services. Three groups of key informants were presented with evidence on national historic and ... -
Small independent water providers: Their position in the regulatory framework for the supply of water in Kenya and Ethiopia
(Oxford University Press, 2013-11-22)The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) included a target to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015—a right recognised as fundamental to human needs. Small independent water ... -
Review of public forestry administrations and related institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Discov. Innov, 2009)The main findings of a study on forest administration and related institutional arrangements (PFA) are highlighted. The relevance and changing roles of PFA in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are covered in the context ... -
Spatial equity in devolved healthcare: Geospatially exploring local disparities in maternal healthcare uptake after devolution in Kenya
(European Scientific Journal, 2018)Devolved healthcare in Kenya was to ensure provision of proximate and easily accessible services throughout the Country, thereby improving local uptake as an outcome from patient perspective. Over five years after ... -
Optimization of ecotourism opportunities within freshwater environments: A multi-criterion planning outline for water-based recreation at Lake Victoria, Kisumu County
(Journal of Natural Sciences Research, 2016)Water-based recreation is an ecotourism genre that attracts participation in most developed countries, but seldom cuts a niche in developed nations. This paper presents synopsis of concepts from a study conducted in four ... -
Recreational waters under multiple stress: exemplifying sources, implications and sustainability options for ecotourism enhancement in Kisumu County, Kenya
(ABC Journals, 2015-06-23)Several natural water reservoirs, especially in the developing nations, have systematically experienced high ecological stresses and this has hindered the demonstration of their ecological utility. There have been little ... -
The Nexus between environmental knowledge and ecotourism attitude among the local youths in Co-educational Secondary Schools in Bondo Sub-County, Siaya County, Kenya
(International Journal of Business and Social Research, 2013)Kenya’s pursuit to be among the top tourism destinations globally require strategic focus as envisaged in Kenya’s Vision 2030 and the Constitution of Kenya 2010. Ecotourism supports environmental conservation as well as ... -
Conjunctive use of surface and groundwater as agri-tourism resource facilitator: Discourse analysis for planning in developing nations
(Journal of Computer Engineering, 2014-12)Ecotourism is increasingly exhibited as a component of the conventional tourism that needs augmentation with enhanced availability of water resources in sustainable modes. This sustainability is attainable through conjunctive ... -
Towards a gender analysis model for environmental management of ecotourism resources in Kisumu County, Kenya
(International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2015-06)This paper aimed at proposing model would help promote ecotourism through gender analysis lenses aimed at ensuring equity for both men and women in the utilization of natural resources by local communities. The results ... -
Physico-chemical charecteristics of Nyanza gulf in lake Victoria, Kenya.
(2011)Kisumu Bay is greatly impacted by pollution from anthropogenic activities around Winam Gulf and from increased levels of industrial and municipal discharges from Kisumu town. This has resulted in significant changes in the ... -
Assessing water- based recreational activities to project beach ecotourism potentials in Kisumu County
(IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE), 2014-12)This paper presents discussions on observed scenarios that characterize water-based recreational activities with an aim of laying grounds for appreciating relationships that enhance or hamper ecotourism development in Lake ... -
Governance of cities in devolved government in Kenya: experiences from Kisumu.
(Management Research & Practice, 2018)Devolution in Kenya has had ramification on local governments especially urban areas. Kisumu City is unique as the only city with a rural county hinterland. It has created a challenge for the County Executive in terms of ...
